Miscellaneous Lessons

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) audio lessons. There’s no particular learning order to this collection. Lessons can be chosen and repeated as you wish, so follow your curiosity! If a lesson isn’t comfortable initially, it’s fine to skip it and revisit it later.

This collection will grow. When we add new lessons to our primary content we’ll usually place them here first.

Longtime Feldenkrais Project fans, if you’re looking for lessons no longer in this collection, several have moved to our collection called Freeing the Spine, Chest, Shoulders, and Neck. Others which were alternate teachings of primary content have moved to our Legacy and Alternate Lessons collection.

Before you begin read this first to learn your responsibilities as an ATM student and practical tips to help you get the most from your studies.

Scroll down and click on a lesson title to go to its audio player, interactive lesson notes, and discussion comments. Descriptions of each lesson give you a sense of its aim, though everyone’s learning process is unique and you may find other benefits.

1. Rolling with Length »

Back-lying with one knee standing, and front-lying. Rolling over a long, spacious, breathing side, with plenty of room to improvise.

2. Fundamentals of a Healthy Back (workshop lesson) »

Back-lying, often knees bent, sometimes legs crossed, tilting. Clarifying our image of the "five curves" of the axial skeleton in action: the traditional three (lumbar, thoracic, and cervical spine), plus the sacrum/tailbone and the skull. Learning to sense functions and efforts through all five curves, including breathing.

3. Breath, Belly, Back, and Hips: Connecting to the Earth (workshop lesson) »

Back-lying, mostly knees bent, framed by brief explorations in standing. An amalgamation of investigations of the lower torso, especially as it connects through the legs and feet to the earth. This lesson develops awareness and spaciousness of this "middle" area, and the Tanden (a concept from the martial arts, also known as the lower Dantian) is discussed and sensed.

After you complete the collection, returning to favorite lessons or progressing through from the beginning again will yield new insights. It can be very surprising to new Feldenkrais students how lessons you “know” are a completely different, valuable experience on subsequent explorations.

You might also want to browse our Learning Guides for ideas to help bridge your Feldenkrais learning into everyday life.

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